executive function

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meanings of executiveand function

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executive
noun[C]
uk /ɪɡˈzek.jə.tɪv/ us /ɪɡˈzek.jə.t̬ɪv/
someone in a high position, especially in business, who makes decisions and puts them ...
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function
noun
uk /ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/ us /ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of ...
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Examples of executive function

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Whether children are playing, or learning language or math skills, they are also receiving training in executivefunction skills at the same time.
Other contributing factors may include decline in sensory input (hearing and visual acuity), working memory and executivefunction.
These findings point to an association with wideranging aspects of executivefunction, including planning and strategy formation, plus evaluating, checking, and monitoring of errors.
Using tests of executivefunction, they found abnormalities particularly during mania, and related particularly to thought disorder.
Children with good executivefunction skills are diligent, well organized, disciplined in completing tasks, and strategic in their approach to resolving problems.
In the second session, participants were administered the computerized executivefunction tests.
Language use does not inherently seem to rest on memory, but working memory at least is normally considered to be part of the executivefunction.
The non-frontal circuits are also likely to be implicated and crucial for intact executivefunction.
Relating effortful control, executivefunction, and false-belief understanding to emerging math and literacy ability in kindergarten.
In addition, no studies of adolescents or young adults who were preterm employed comprehensive neuropsychological testing including rigorous measures of executivefunction.
They found impairment on a broad range of dorsolateral prefrontal executivefunction tasks and on some ventromedial tasks.
On executivefunction tests, recovered subjects made significantly fewer perseverative errors and completed more categories than non-recovered subjects.
They report that executivefunction deficits are most evident during mania, and are associated with formal thought disorder.
The results lend support to the emerging evidence that resistance to treatment in lateonset depression may be associated with impaired executivefunction.
Introducing executivefunction ability into the epistemic equation affords a view of the process of development as bidirectional.
This suggests that atypical antipsychotics may benefit executivefunction.
Rather, it might involve more "high-level" processing based on the executivefunction of the prefrontal brain.
These difficulties appear to be independent of other deficits in cognitive ability and executivefunction.
Being in foster care was significantly associated with worse emotion understanding and theory of mind capabilities, even when accounting for age, intelligence, and executivefunction.
This ability to control attention is part of the executivefunction that is developing gradually in preschool in children.
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